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Billy Corgan Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“You're everything that I want and ask for, you're all that I'd dreamed.”
— Billy Corgan, Stand Inside Your Love
Tagged: Love, How To Say I Love You, Love Quotes For Her
“Everyday is the best day if you let it be. You can have mastery over a lot of things but if you don’t have your mind right, none of these things matter.”
— Billy Corgan
Tagged: Good Morning, Think Positive, Quote of the Moment
“The tendency of most people is to be lazy and not pursue their dreams, to let life slip by. That's why people freak out when they're 40 and start buying Porsches.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Middle Life Crisis, Getting Older, Realizing You've Wasted Your Life, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“If you don't have good examples, you don't know what you're shooting for.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: The Importance of Good Role Models, Role Models, How Children Learn, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“If you're a desperate person, an insecure person, and go to such great lengths as to have a rock band to satiate those insecurities, something is not right.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Why People Go Big, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“Music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Ideals, Art as Escape, Music, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“I've grown stronger as someone, as someone; as someone else.”
— Billy Corgan, I've grown stronger as someone, as someone; as someone else.
Tagged: Life Is Life, Aging
“Those Pitchfork people are very much about social codes, about whether you’re wearing the right t-shirt. That orthodoxy is no different than the rigidity of the football team at school. You can’t break the social order if you’re preaching to the choir – and the choir already has cool haircuts!”
— Billy Corgan, That orthodoxy is no different than the rigidity of the football team at school.
Tagged: Orthodoxy
“A lot of these bands have spent a lot more time worrying about what they look like in public, what their stature is than doing what they're supposed to be doing, what their fans would want them to do. Which is be the best band they can be.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Focus on the Art, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“Believe, believe in me, believe in the resolute urgency of now.”
— Billy Corgan, Tonight, Tonight
Tagged: There Is No Time Like Right Now, The Power of Now, Nowness
“I was on another planet.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Somewhere Else, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
“ Where are the bands of dissent? Where has the pushback gone?”
— Billy Corgan, Where are the bands of dissent? Where has the pushback gone?
Tagged: Systems as Systems
“Where are the bands of dissent? Where has the pushback gone?”
— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: 'The next Kurt Cobain or Trent Reznor won't make it' | UNCUT
Tagged: Fight Songs
“I’ll tell you one quick thing that I can talk about that’s kinda cool. Similar but less dark. I was working on my book, which I’ve sort of stalled on at the moment. But I was working on the book and I was being lazy about saving the book, and I hit some weird key and the thing blanked. I lost eight days’ worth of work. And I lost my mind. At that exact moment in the other room, my girlfriend was cooking dinner, and she turned and saw a woman walking through the kitchen. And it was my mother, who she’s only seen in pictures—my mother at twenty-five years old walking fast with her head down through the kitchen. My girlfriend was like, 'What the heck just happened?' So she followed the spirit, and there was nothing. She came in to tell me, and it had happened at the exact moment I blanked my book. So she was coming in one direction to tell me, 'I just saw your mother as a ghost in the house.' I’m coming to tell her, 'Oh my God I just lost this eight days’ worth of work.' It was like this weird ripple in time thing.”
— Billy Corgan, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Ghosts, Supernatural
“I can’t believe that we’re even having this discussion. To be talking in America in 2016 about Mao is a good idea, and a socialist is running for president and that’s OK, and we’re going to go back to these crazy tax rates where we’re going to completely disempower the innovators in our country because the new technocratic class wants to keep their position and they want to keep anybody else from coming in the game… I mean, it’s just crazy to me.”
— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins Founder Billy Corgan Unloads on The Social Justice Movement
Tagged: American Politics, Taxes
“I was there growing up at the time when they let the KKK march down the street. And what was the issue? It was a freedom of speech issue. They're thumbing their nose at us, but you know what? It's better to have an America where these idiots get to walk down the street and spout their hate. That's the world I grew up in — a liberal, democratically leaning Chicago that was about tolerance and free speech. Not shut it down because it's unpleasant. The lack of tolerance of ideas and other points of view is the great Achilles' heel of the social justice warrior movement.”
— Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins Founder Billy Corgan Unloads on The Social Justice Movement
Tagged: KKK, Free Speech, SJW
“My parents were nowhere to be found. There's no getting around that. It definitely makes you go, "What is love?" They say they love me; love me means don't live with me. I don't understand. It's not the complete excuse, because I'm old enough now to understand certain things that maybe I couldn't before. But I'm still having trouble getting it to sit in the right place.”
— Billy Corgan, Billy Corgan: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: When Your Parents Don't Love You, When You Aren't Loved As A Child, Growing Up Without Love, Rolling Stone Archives, billy corgan, smashing pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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